Texas college student flies home from California to cast his ballot as voter turnout surges

[RandySF]

When Texas Sen. John Cornyn saw the latest Texas early voting numbers on Monday, he asked his Twitter followers a simple question: “Who says voting in Texas is hard?”

Bradley Bain, a 23-year-old senior from Dallas at Pomona College in California, is one Texan taking exception because he’s finding it very difficult to vote.

“I’m literally spending >$400 to fly to Dallas and vote in person because you ‘accidentally’ flagged me as committing voter fraud in 2018, took me off the voter rolls, and made me ineligible to vote by mail in 2020,” Bain responded to the Republican in a tweet that had more than 176,000 likes as of Tuesday evening.

Bain hadn’t received a response for weeks after sending his absentee ballot application to the Dallas County Elections Department, so on Monday he booked a last-minute flight home to Dallas so he could vote in person.

“It’s been such a saga just to figure out how to vote,” said Bain, who cast his ballot Tuesday during early voting. “I wasn’t going to waste my opportunity to do so.”

Bain’s trip halfway across the country to vote captures the enthusiasm of Texas voters this election cycle — even in the midst of a pandemic.



https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/10/20/texas-college-student-flies-home-from-california-to-cast-his-ballot-as-voter-turnout-surges/

[uponit7771]

1. K&R,

[LisaL]

2. Wow. That's dedication.

[tanyev]

3. Thank you, Bradley!

[Ilsa]

4. Thank you, Bradley Bain, for

not taking your right to vote for granted, and for sacrificing so much to exercise your right to vote.

It upsets me when I hear, especially from women, that they haven't registered to vote, when their great grandmothers or great great grandmothers might have been jailed or physically harmed to protest for the right to vote.